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Home Detention Curfew (HDC [1]) is a detention scheme in the United Kingdom whereby fixed-term offenders serving between three months and four years in prison may be released between 15 days and 180 days (depending on sentence length) earlier than their 'normal' release date at the half-way point of the sentence [1] to allow them to integrate back into society.
Established in 1978 in the wake of Local Law 45 of 1976, the Department is the largest municipal developer of affordable housing in the United States.HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026.
DHCR administers various programs aimed at developing, rehabilitating, and preserving affordable housing in the state. Programs include the Mitchell–Lama Housing Program, federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and State Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which offers tax incentives to encourage private investment in affordable housing; the federal HOME Investment Partnerships Program of the HTFC ...
NYCHA is a public-benefit corporation, controlled by the Mayor of New York City, and organized under the State's Public Housing Law. [6] [11] The NYCHA ("NYCHA Board") consists of seven members, of which the chairman is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Mayor of New York City, while the others are appointed for three-year terms by the mayor. [12]
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is a department within the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency that develops housing policy and building codes (i.e. the California Building Standards Code), regulates manufactured homes and mobile home parks, and administers housing finance, economic development and community development programs.
Aug. 26—Crossroads Housing Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization in Texas, has announced 25 years of operation. Founded in 1999 by Paul Pryor, Crossroads has been involved in the ...
The original goal of NYC HDFCs in the early 1980s was to salvage neglected housing stock [3] while lifting people out of poverty and low income status by giving them home ownership. Most HDFC coops originated in crime-ridden neighborhoods as discarded buildings that the city did not want to maintain, thus, the buildings were sold to tenants.
The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 1706e) is a United States federal law that, among other provisions, amended the Housing Act of 1937 to create Section 8 housing, [1] authorizes "Entitlement Communities Grants" to be awarded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and created the National Institute of Building Sciences. [2]